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2018 Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, LLC. All Rights ReservedInfographic: Osama's Mansion VS. Saddam's RatholeApple's upcoming spaceship compound they are not.A month and a half since Osama's death was inadvertantly live-tweeted and Taiwanese animators topped themselves yet again US investigators are still poring through the mountains of encrypted files bin Laden kept on the computers and thumb drives in his hideout. Compared to Saddam Hussein's capture in 2003 the raid on Osama's compound warranted infinitely more terrorist intel -- not to mention the assassination of the most wanted criminal in the world.Of course both parties contributed plenty of stellar material to Fox's Arrested Development.But how do the hideouts compare? What were they worth? What ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/06/15/infographic-osamas-mansion-vs-saddams/
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:40:00 EDTTaliban Now Dying &quot;Greenest&quot; Deaths PossibleThe US Army held a live-fire demonstration of its &quot;new M855A1 5.56mm bullet&quot; this morning according to the Army's Public Affairs Office.Apparently the &quot;enhanced performance round&quot; contains an &quot;environmentally-friendly projectile that eliminates up to 2 000 tons of lead from the manufacturing process each year in direct support of Army commitment to environmental stewardship.&quot;Our men and women in uniform don't have to sacrifice performance while doing their part to ensure the pristine wilds of downtown Baghdad stay pollution-free either. Lt. Col. Jeffrey K. Woods the program's product manager calls the M855A1 &quot;the best general purpose 5.56mm round ever produced.&quot; The ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/05/04/taliban-now-dying-greenest-deaths/
Wed, 4 May 2011 12:23:00 EDTOsama Raid Re-Enacted in Hilarious Taiwanese CGIGod Bless the NMA.The Taiwanese news outfit -- which re-enacts media events with CGI characters straight outta The Sims -- may be short on satire but its videos bring just as many laughs as The Daily Show and Colbert Report combined. Last November NMA depicted the war between Conan O'Brien Jay Leno and NBC with bong-smoking Conan fans vehicular homicide and a metaphor-heavy bear. And last night as everyone else was tweeting their funniest &quot;long-form death certificate&quot; quips NMA recreated a slightly more surreal version of the US raid on bin Laden's hideout -- rivaling South Park's blazingly fast response ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/05/02/osama-raid-re-enacted-in/
Mon, 2 May 2011 13:49:00 EDTThe Tweet That Changed the WorldUnless you've been living in a cave -- and if you have I'm glad you didn't have a roommate -- Osama bin Laden was killed in a US raid in Abbottabad Pakistan. Thanks to social media word spread almost instantaneously following his death as many traditional media outlets were scooped by millions of Average Joes tweeting &quot;Trump wants to see the long-form death certificate.&quot; The speed in which the event was shared led to a memorable moment during last night's Mets-Phillies game where everyone's iPhones and Androids alerted the crowd to the news. (An NBC report used the collective term ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/05/02/the-tweet-that-changed-the/
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